mm: fix uninitialized use in overcommit_policy_handler
We get an unexpected value of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory after running the following program: int main() { int fd = open("/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory", O_RDWR); write(fd, "1", 1); write(fd, "2", 1); close(fd); } write(fd, "2", 1) will pass *ppos = 1 to proc_dointvec_minmax. proc_dointvec_minmax will return 0 without setting new_policy. t.data = &new_policy; ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(&t, write, buffer, lenp, ppos) -->do_proc_dointvec -->__do_proc_dointvec if (write) { if (proc_first_pos_non_zero_ignore(ppos, table)) goto out; sysctl_overcommit_memory = new_policy; so sysctl_overcommit_memory will be set to an uninitialized value. Check whether new_policy has been changed by proc_dointvec_minmax. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923020524.13289-1-chenjun102@huawei.com Fixes: 56f3547b ("mm: adjust vm_committed_as_batch according to vm overcommit policy") Signed-off-by: Chen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@huawei.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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